Rei Takver
@rtakver.bsky.social
Investigative climate and tech reporter @desmog.com. Words in the Guardian, DeSmog, and the Nerve, among others.
nyc climate & tech / energy peeps check in! time to make some good vibes happen…
Rei Takver@rtakver.bsky.social · 2mo agoNYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you! I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for. I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :). Cheers!
Calling NYC climate people! Let's build some community around Rei 💚 Click through...
Rei Takver@rtakver.bsky.social · 2mo agoNYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you! I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for. I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :). Cheers!
Calling all NY Climate peeps for fellowship and camaraderie and support for @rtakver.bsky.social! ❤️🩹
Rei Takver@rtakver.bsky.social · 2mo agoNYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you! I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for. I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :). Cheers!
New York climate folks - please connect up with Rei who is an absolute gun journalist - eg this total scoop: www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/i...
Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres
As the UK and EU debate how to source the vast quantities of electricity they’ll need to power their grand visions of home-grown artificial intelligence (AI), the gas turbine sector is confident that ...
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Rei Takver@rtakver.bsky.social · 2mo agoNYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you! I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for. I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :). Cheers!
NYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you! I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for. I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :). Cheers!
My dearest friend, one of the strongest women I ever met, wrote one of the most beautiful poems I ever read. Please have a look and share.
Rei Takver@rtakver.bsky.social · 2mo agoLast night, doctors told me I very likely have late stage ovarian cancer. I am 39. In the waiting room at the hospital, as I awaited that moment, I wrote this poem. Whoever you are, wherever you read this - live your life. In all its glory. In all its pain. Live it. It is everything.
Last night, doctors told me I very likely have late stage ovarian cancer. I am 39. In the waiting room at the hospital, as I awaited that moment, I wrote this poem. Whoever you are, wherever you read this - live your life. In all its glory. In all its pain. Live it. It is everything.
Turns out, when you delightedly tell people you're going to force something on them that will take their job, destroy their future, and ruin the environment, they ... don't like it?
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo ago"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months" lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...
Congrats everyone: thanks to the AI boom, the US is now investing more in fossil fuel power than China, a country with four times the population.
AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China - Carbon Brief
The “data-centre boom” is driving a surge in gas investment in the US, pushing its fossil-power spending ahead of China, according to the IEA
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The New York Times is hiring another climate policy reporter. Come work with me! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
Climate Policy Correspondent
Washington, DC
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God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.
What’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?
Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between
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Welsh Reform labelled "a retirement home for failed Conservatives", with two thirds of cabinet being ex-Tories. By @adambarnett.bsky.social for @desmog.com
Two Thirds of Reform’s Wales Shadow Cabinet Are Ex-Tories
The majority of Reform UK’s shadow cabinet in Wales is made up of former Conservative Party politicians, including its leader, chief whip, and shadow economy minister, DeSmog can reveal. Nigel Farage’...
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"fewer people believe it now than when the same question was asked in 2019 and 2022" 🤔 I wonder if this has anything to do with this travesty? ##EndClimateSilence
Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo agoScientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
TikTok may have pledged to tackle climate misinformation on its platform in 2023, but earlier this month the company sponsored the annual meeting of the right-wing Canada Strong and Free Network that featured multiple climate deniers as speakers. By @rtakver.bsky.social at @desmog.com:
TikTok’s Climate Pledges Collide with Sponsorship of Climate Deniers
By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has “abandoned” its commitments to combat climate misinformation
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🔴 NEW: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions ‘Scam’ In KTM dealerships across the continent, thousands of off-road bikes are stripped of legally-required features that restrict pollution. 📝By @hajmedd.bsky.social & @tjjordan.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/05/26/e...
Exclusive: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions ‘Scam’
Austrian motorcycle giant KTM is systematically bypassing laws designed to limit pollution and noise, it can be revealed. During a year-long investigation, undercover reporters visited 15 trade shows ...
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The EU must ensure tech companies disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, the head of the bloc’s environment agency has said.
Don’t let Big Tech hide ecological cost of AI, environment agency chief tells EU
Brussels must require tech companies to disclose data centers’ energy and water use, Leena Ylä-Mononen says.
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🔴 New - TikTok says climate denial isn't tolerated on TikTok, but... January: Trump-friendly tech giant Oracle takes over US TikTok algorithms to recommend videos May: TikTok sponsors right-wing Canadian conference full of climate deniers My 📝 for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/05/22/t...
TikTok’s Climate Pledges Collide with Sponsorship of Climate Deniers
By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has “abandoned” its commitments to combat climate misinformation
desmog.com
Climate hushing in the UK? You betcha. Really important work from my colleague @adambarnett.bsky.social
The Lead@theleaduk.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe have to discuss where our energy comes from, not just how much it costs New from @adambarnett.bsky.social as he reflects on the growing vacuum around climate in our politics.
🔴 NEW - Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland
A close ally of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has helped to launch the central European offshoot of a U.S. climate denial group alongside far-right figures. Lois Perry – executive director of Heartlan...
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A powerful climate convergence today, featuring none other than @thierryaaron.bsky.social, @rtakver.bsky.social, myself, and Sarlacc's Pit.
credit to @mississippitoday.org for for breaking the number of turbines w their story (below) - we’re adding details from the emails that appear to show the company doubling the power capacity at the site between late March and last week
xAI now has 46 gas turbines without air permits. - Mississippi Today
The NAACP has requested an injunction after learning xAI has more than doubled the number of temporary-mobile turbines at its Southaven facility. MDEQ confirmed to Mississippi Today that the number wa...
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I wrote a piece about the need to end climate silence. Don't listen to the "climate hushers" -- people telling us to ignore the crisis & only focus on affordability and "kitchen-table" issues. Instead, connect climate and our fossil fuel addiction to the issues that voters care about most.
Ending Climate Silence — Advocating for Climate Action in a World on Fire
Climate Silence is Real and Getting Worse
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We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...
Watch the recap video on our YouTube channel here: youtube.com/watch?v=yw-GXu0kzl4&feature=youtu.be
How Climate Denialism is Evolving With Trump in Office
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📍TODAY📍 Don't miss Covering Climate Now's special conversation on the Trump administration’s embrace of climate denialism, featuring DeSmog reporter Rei Takver. To register, go here: buff.ly/C77yrwf @rtakver.bsky.social
Talking Shop: How Climate Denialism Is Evolving With Trump in Office — Covering Climate Now
In April, a climate denial conference hosted in Washington, D.C., and boasting US Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin as a keynote speaker signaled a new era in US politics: from a slow…
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DeSmog’s analysis of Nigel Farage’s £2 million in earnings is featured on the front page of The Guardian today
"Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...
Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’
A couple days later, the Trump-linked group hosted EPA chief — and potential attorney general — Lee Zeldin at a Washington, D.C. event.
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TODAY: Join us at 5pm BT, 12pm ET, and 9am PT to discuss how climate denialism is evolving with Trump in office
Covering Climate Now@coveringclimatenow.org · 3mo agoThis Thursday, May 7, at 12pm ET, we'll be hosting @maxinejoselow.bsky.social (NYT), @manonjacob.bsky.social (AFP), and @rtakver.bsky.social (DeSmog), in conversation with CCNow's Kyle Pope about how climate denialism is evolving with Trump in office. Join us: coveringclimatenow.org/event/talkin...
